According to indeed.com, the average RN salary in CA, in October 2014, was $71,000. As per the BLS, the mean annual and hourly wages, in May 2013, were $96,980 and $46.62, respectively. Since the cost of living is quite high, the average registered nurse salary in California is 7% higher than the national average.
Full Definition of POVERTY. 1. a: the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions b: renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property. 2. : scarcity, dearth.
1The state of being extremely poor. âthousands of families are living in abject povertyâ. âIt was dirty, full of poverty, and the politics were full of corruption.â. âThe new kind of poverty was in the process of acquiring a revolutionary quality.â. âPeople looked to religion for some hope in the face of poverty and oppression brought by colonialism.â.